New Luppe,
Pleiße
The Pleiße is a river of Saxony and Thuringia, Germany.
The Pleiße has its source southwest of Zwickau at Ebersbrunn, then flows through Werdau, Crimmitschau, Altenburg, and other towns and villages in Saxony and Thuringia, before flowing fr ...
, and
Parthe
The Parthe is a river in Saxony, Germany, right tributary of the White Elster. Its total length is . The Parthe originates in northern Saxony, between Colditz and Bad Lausick. It flows northwest through Parthenstein, Naunhof, Borsdorf and Taucha ...
) in the city have largely artificial river beds and are supplemented by some channels. These waterways are suitable only for small leisure boat traffic.
Through the renovation and reconstruction of existing
mill race
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s and watercourses in the south of the city and flooded disused
open cast mines
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This form of mining ...
, the city's navigable water network is being expanded. A link between Karl Heine Canal and the disused Lindenauer port was opened in 2015. Still more work was scheduled to complete the Elster-Saale canal. Such a move would allow small boats to reach the
Elbe
The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Repu ...
from Leipzig. The intended completion date has been postponed because of an unacceptable cost-benefit ratio.
File:Leipzig NGT12-LEI Waldplatz defekt.jpg, Tram of Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe
File:Leipzig Georg-Schumann-Strasse.jpg, Tramsystem at the Georg-Schumann-Straße
File:S-Bahnhof Leipzig Markt.jpg, Leipzig City Tunnel
The City Tunnel is a twin-bore railway tunnel for the city-centre S-Bahn in Leipzig. It links Leipzig Hauptbahnhof with the central Markt station, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz station and Bayerischer Bahnhof.
Construction began in July 2003. The fi ...
, part of Leipzig's new S-Bahn
The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban- suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble co ...
network
File:S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland. Talent 2,027, Innenansicht Sitze.jpg, Inside the S-Bahn train
Quotations
''Mein Leipzig lob' ich mir! Es ist ein klein Paris und bildet seine Leute.'' (I praise my Leipzig! It is a small Paris and educates its people.) – Frosch, a university student in Goethe's ''
Faust, Part One
''Faust: A Tragedy'' (german: Faust. Eine Tragödie, links=no, , or aust. The tragedy's first part is the first part of the tragic play ''Faust'' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and is considered by many as the greatest work of German literature ...
''
''Ich komme nach Leipzig, an den Ort, wo man die ganze Welt im Kleinen sehen kann.'' (I'm coming to Leipzig, to the place where one can see the whole world in miniature.) –
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (, ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and a representative of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the developmen ...
''Extra Lipsiam vivere est miserrime vivere.'' (To live outside Leipzig is to live miserably.) –
Benedikt Carpzov the Younger
''Das angenehme Pleis-Athen, Behält den Ruhm vor allen, Auch allen zu gefallen, Denn es ist wunderschön.'' (The pleasurable Pleiss-Athens, earns its fame above all, appealing to every one, too, for it is mightily beauteous.) –
Johann Sigismund Scholze
Johann Sigismund Scholze alias Sperontes (20 March 1705 in Lobendau bei Liegnitz (today Lubiatów near Złotoryja) 28 September 1750 in Leipzig) was a Silesian music anthologist and poet.
Life
Little is known about the life of Scholze. He was th ...
Twin towns – sister cities
Leipzig is
twinned with:
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Addis Ababa
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, Ethiopia (2004)
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Birmingham
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, United Kingdom (1992)
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Bologna
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, Italy (1962, renewed in 1997)
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Brno
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, Czech Republic (1973, renewed in 1999)
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Frankfurt
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, Germany (1990)
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Hanover
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, Germany (1987)
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Herzliya
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, Israel (2010)
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Ho Chi Minh City
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, Vietnam (2021)
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Houston
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, United States (1993)
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Kraków
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, Poland (1973, renewed in 1995)
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Kyiv
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, Ukraine (1961, renewed in 1992)
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Lyon
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, France (1981)
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Nanjing
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, China (1988)
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Thessaloniki
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, Greece (1984)
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Travnik
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, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2003)
Notable people
Politicians
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Nikolaus Krell
Nikolaus Krell (c. 1551 – 9 October 1601), chancellor of the elector of Saxony, was born at Leipzig, and educated at the university of Leipzig, university of his native town.
About 1580 he entered the service of Christian I, Elector of Saxony, ...
(1551–1601), chancellor of the
elector of Saxony
The Electorate of Saxony, also known as Electoral Saxony (German: or ), was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356–1806. It was centered around the cities of Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz.
In the Golden Bull of 1356, Emperor Charles ...
.
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Friedrich Karl Biedermann
Friedrich Karl Biedermann (25 September 1812 in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony – 5 March 1901) was a German professor, politician, and publisher who greatly aided the Liberalism, Liberal movement in Germany during the process of German Unification.
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(1812–1901), a professor, politician, and publisher.
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Louise Otto-Peters (1819–1895), suffragette, founded the German Women's Association
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August Bebel
Ferdinand August Bebel (22 February 1840 – 13 August 1913) was a German socialist politician, writer, and orator. He is best remembered as one of the founders of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP) in 1869, which in 1875 mer ...
(1840–1913), socialist politician, co-founder of Germany's SDP.
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Karl Liebknecht
Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht (; 13 August 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a German socialist and anti-militarist. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) beginning in 1900, he was one of its deputies in the Reichstag from ...
(1871–1919), socialist, co-founded the Communist Party of Germany
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Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (; 31 July 1884 – 2 February 1945) was a monarchist conservative German politician, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime. He opposed some anti-Jewish policies while he held office and was ...
(1884–1945), mayor, a lead conservative resistance against Hitler
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Paul Frölich
Paul Frölich (7 August 1884 – 16 March 1953) was a German journalist and left-wing political activist and author, a founding member of the Communist Party of Germany and founder of the party's paper, ''Die Rote Fahne.'' A Communist Party deputy ...
(1884–1953), politician, KPD co-founder, biographer of
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg (; ; pl, Róża Luksemburg or ; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Successively, she was a member of the Proletariat party, ...
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Walter Ulbricht
Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht (; 30 June 18931 August 1973) was a German communist politician. Ulbricht played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and later (after spending the years of Nazi rule in ...
(1893–1973), Communist politician, GDR Chairman of the Council of State, 1960–1973
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Ruth Fischer
Ruth Fischer (11 December 1895 – 13 March 1961) was an Austrian and German Communist, and a co-founder of the Austrian Communist Party (KPÖ) in 1918. Along with her partner Arkadi Maslow, she led the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) through b ...
(1895–1961), communist politician and journalist, co-founder of the CPA
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Annemarie Renger
Annemarie Renger (née Wildung), (7 October 1919 in Leipzig – 3 March 2008 in Remagen-Oberwinter), was a German politician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
From 1972 until 1976 she served as the 5th President of the Bundestag ...
(1919–2008), politician, President of the Bundestag, 1972 to 1976
Philosophers and Theologians
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz . ( – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathema ...
(1646–1716), philosopher and scientist, mathematician, diplomat.
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Johann Friedrich Mayer (1650–1712), Lutheran theologian
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Christian Thomasius
Christian Thomasius (1 January 1655 – 23 September 1728) was a German jurist and philosopher.
Biography
He was born in Leipzig and was educated by his father, Jakob Thomasius (1622–1684), at that time a junior lecturer in Leipzig Universi ...
(1655–1728), a jurist and philosopher.
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Wilhelm Abraham Teller
Wilhelm Abraham Teller (9 January 17349 December 1804) was a German Protestant theologian who championed a rational approach to Christianity.
Life and career
Teller was born in Leipzig. His father, Romanus Teller (1703–1750), was a pastor at Lei ...
(1734–1804), a Protestant theologian with a rational approach.
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Franz Delitzsch
Franz Delitzsch (23 February 1813, in Leipzig – 4 March 1890, in Leipzig) was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist. Delitzsch wrote many commentaries on books of the Bible, Jewish antiquities, Biblical psychology, as well as a history of ...
(1813–1890), a Lutheran theologian and
Hebraist
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.
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Christian Daniel Beck (1757–1832), a philologist, historian, theologian and antiquarian.
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Georg Benedikt Winer Georg Benedikt Winer (13 April 1789, Leipzig – 12 May 1858, Leipzig), Germany, German Protestant theology, theologian, known for his linguistics, linguistic studies of the New Testament.
Life
He studied theology at Leipzig, where in 1819 he began ...
(1789–1858), a Protestant theologian, known for linguistic studies of the New Testament.
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Christian Hermann Weisse
Christian Hermann Weisse (; ; Weiße in modern German; 10 August 1801 – 19 September 1866) was a German Protestant religious philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. He was the son of theologian (1766–1832).
Bi ...
(1801–1866), Protestant theologian and philosopher.
Writing & Arts
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Johann Albert Fabricius
Johann Albert Fabricius (11 November 1668 – 30 April 1736) was a German classical scholar and bibliographer.
Biography
Fabricius was born at Leipzig, son of Werner Fabricius, director of music in the church of St. Paul at Leipzig, who was the ...
(1668–1736), a classical scholar and bibliographer.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...
(1685–1750), composer.
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Johann Gottfried Donati (1706–1782), composer
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and sec ...
(1714–1788) a Classical period musician and composer.
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Johann Christian Bach
Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735 – January 1, 1782) was a German composer of the Classical period (music), Classical era, the eighteenth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the youngest of his eleven sons. After living in Italy for ...
(1735–1782), composer, youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach
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Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (4 May 1772 – 20 August 1823) was a German encyclopedia publisher and editor, famed for publishing the '' Conversations-Lexikon'', which is now published as the Brockhaus encyclopedia.
Biography
Brockhaus was edu ...
(1772–1823), publisher, originated the Brockhaus encyclopedia.
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Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann
Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann (28 November 1772 – 31 December 1848) was a German classical scholar and philologist. He published his works under the name Gottfried Hermann or its Latin equivalent .
Biography
He was born in Leipzig. Entering ...
(1772–1848), a classical scholar and philologist.
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Karl Wilhelm Dindorf
Karl Wilhelm Dindorf ( la, Guilielmus Dindorfius; 2 January 1802 – 1 August 1883) was a German classical scholar. He was born and died at Leipzig.
From his earliest years he showed a strong taste for classical studies, and after completing F. ...
(1802–1883), a classical scholar.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sy ...
(1809–1847), composer, pianist, organist and conductor.
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Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career a ...
(1810–1856), composer and music critic.
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Roderich Benedix
Julius Roderich Benedix (21 January 1811 – 26 September 1873) was a German dramatist and librettist, born in Leipzig, where he was educated there at Thomasschule.
He joined the stage in 1831, his first engagement being with the travelling compan ...
(1811–1873), a dramatist and librettist.
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Theodor Bergk
Theodor Bergk (22 May 181220 July 1881) was a German philologist, an authority on classical Greek poetry.
Biography
He was born in Leipzig as the son of Johann Adam Bergk. After studying at the University of Leipzig, where he profited by the inst ...
(1812–1881), a philologist, an authority on classical Greek poetry.
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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...
(1813–1883), composer, theatre director and conductor.
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Clara Schumann
Clara Josephine Schumann (; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a ...
(1819–1896), pianist and composer.
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Carl Johann Lasch (1822–1888), painter
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Carl Reinecke
Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (23 June 182410 March 1910) was a German composer, conductor, and pianist in the mid-Romantic era.
Biography
Reinecke was born in what is today the Hamburg district of Altona; technically he was born a Dane, as ...
(1824–1910), composer, conductor, and pianist.
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Max Beckmann
Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920 ...
(1884–1950), expressionist painter, professor at art academies and schools
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Wilhelm Backhaus
Wilhelm Backhaus ('Bachaus' on some record labels) (26 March 1884 – 5 July 1969) was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. He was also much ...
(1884–1969), pianist
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Karl Alfred Pabst (1884–1971), painter, graphic artist and lithographer
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Hanns Eisler
Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was an Austrian composer (his father was Austrian, and Eisler fought in a Hungarian regiment in World War I). He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artisti ...
(1898–1962), composer of the national anthem of
the GDR
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Bruno Apitz
Bruno Apitz (28 April 1900 – 7 April 1979) was a German writer and a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Life and career
Apitz was born in Leipzig, as the twelfth child of a washer woman. He attended school until he was fourteen, t ...
(1900–1979), writer
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Wolfgang Weber
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Playing career
Weber, a central defender with 1. FC Köln in 356 Bundesli ...
(1902–1985), photojournalist
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Hans Mayer
Hans Mayer (19 March 1907 in Cologne – 19 May 2001 in Tübingen; pseudonym: ''Martin Seiler'') was a German literary scholar. Mayer was also a jurist and social researcher and was internationally recognized as a critic, author and musicologist ...
(1907–2001), literary scholar
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Kurt Masur
Kurt Masur (18 July 1927 – 19 December 2015) was a German conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Or ...
(1927–2015), conductor of the
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
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Herbert Blomstedt
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Herbert Blomstedt was born in Massachusetts. Two years after his birth, his Swedish parents moved the family back to their country of origin. He studied at the Stockholm Ro ...
(born 1927), conductor of the
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gewandhausorchester; also previously known in German as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig) is a German symphony orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany. The orchestra is named after the concert hall in which it is bas ...
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Werner Tübke
Werner Tübke (30 July 1929 in Schönebeck, Germany – 27 May 2004 in Leipzig, Germany) was a German painter, best known for his monumental '' Peasants' War Panorama'' located in Bad Frankenhausen
Bad Frankenhausen (officially: Bad Frankenhaus ...
(1929–2004), painter
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Hans-Joachim Schulze
Hans-Joachim Schulze (born 3 December 1934) is a German musicologist, a Bach scholar who served as the director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 1992 to 2000. With Christoph Wolff, he was editor of the '' Bach-Jahrbuch'' (Bach yearbook) from ...
(born 1934), Bach scholar
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Riccardo Chailly
Riccardo Chailly (, ; born 20 February 1953) is an Italian conductor. He is currently music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, since 2016, and music director of La Scala, since 2017. Prior to this, he held chief conducting positions ...
(born 1953), conductor of the
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gewandhausorchester; also previously known in German as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig) is a German symphony orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany. The orchestra is named after the concert hall in which it is bas ...
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Neo Rauch
Neo Rauch (born 18 April 1960, in Leipzig, East Germany; ) is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes ...
(born 1960), painter
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Till Lindemann
Till Lindemann (; born 4 January 1963) is a German singer, songwriter and poet. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein and solo project Lindemann. Rammstein has sold over 25 million records w ...
(born 1963), vocalist
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Simone Thomalla
Simone Thomalla (born 11 April 1965) is a German actress.
Career
As a child, Thomalla wanted to be a musician, but instead attended the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch acting school in Berlin. She began her career in 1982 in Ea ...
(born 1965), actress
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Matthias Weischer
Matthias Weischer (born 1973 in Elte, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany) is a painter living in Leipzig. Weischer is considered to be part of the New Leipzig School.
Life
Matthias Weischer studied painting from 1995 to 2001 and received h ...
(born 1973), painter
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Oskar Lenz
Oskar Lenz (13 April 1848 in Leipzig – 1 March 1925 in Sooß) was a German-Austrian geologist and mineralogist born in Leipzig.
In 1870, he earned his doctorate in mineralogy and geology at the University of Leipzig. In 1872, he joined as a v ...
(1848–1925), explorer and travel writer
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Hans Meyer (1858–1929), geographer, Africanist and mountaineer
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Martin Broszat
Martin Broszat (14 August 1926 – 14 October 1989) was a German historian specializing in modern German social history. As director of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History) in Munich from 1972 until his deat ...
(1926–1989), historian, head of Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich
*Ruth Pfau (1929–2017), nun, physician and writer
*Christian Gottfried Körner (1756–1831), jurist and writer
*Sebastian Krumbiegel (1966-), singer and musician
*Tobias Künzel (1964-), singer and musician
Science & Business
*Michael Ettmüller (1644–1683), a physician.
*Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (1652–1723), physician and botanist
*Carl Gustav Carus (1789–1869), doctor, painter and natural philosopher.
*Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824–1877), a biologist and botanist.
*Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1841–1880), chemist
*Karl Wittgenstein (1847–1913), entrepreneur
*Sibylle Kemmler-Sack (1934-1999), chemist
War figures
*Elfriede Rinkel (1922–2018), warden of a concentration camp during the Nazi dictatorship
*Karl Eberhard Schöngarth (1903–1946), SS officer and war criminal, executed in Hamelin
*Wilhelm Souchon (1864–1946), admiral in World War I
Sport
*Marvin Kirchhöfer (born 1994), racing driver
*René Müller (born 1959), footballer
*Kristin Otto (born 1966), swimmer, six-time Olympic gold medalist, sports journalist
*Rita Wilden (born 1947), sprinter
See also
*Battle of Breitenfeld (1642)
*Hugo Schneider AG
*Leipzig Human Rights Award
*Leipzig Jewish community
*Leipzig University Library
*List of mayors of Leipzig
*Ubiquity Theatre Company – English speaking theatre projects in Leipzig
References
Further reading
''Leipzig: One Thousand Years of German History. Bach, Luther, Faust: The City of Books and Music''. By Sebastian Ringel. Berlinica, 2015
External links
The city's official website*
Leipzig as virtual city 408 Points of Interest – EnglishThe Leipzig Glocal English language webzine and blog publishing regularly
Ubiquity Theatre Company – English language theatre projects in Leipzig
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Leipzig Zeitgeist', an English magazine about Leipzig
This is Leipzig an English web site for Leipzig
LostInLeipzig Get lost in Germany's best city
Events in LeipzigMusic festivals in Leipzig
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